Great Area under Water.
Martial Law Proclaimed.
SO Operatives Drowned. : Press Association. — Telegraph. — Copyright Received June 9, 0.27 a.^rn. NEW YORK, June 8. ■ 'Reuter's Agency states that 200,000 acres of fertiie farms within a radius of 25 miles of St. Louis ate flooded, and only uh^ tops of .the houses visible, v Martial law has been proclaimed in* the flooded districts and looters ordered to be shot. ' .', ' Fifty operatives were t drowned in the Spartanburg-' flood, <which was cquscd >by the bursting of a dam.,
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10970, 9 June 1903, Page 5
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85Great Area under Water. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10970, 9 June 1903, Page 5
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